All Pieces for Philip Nusbaum

 
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass to Be Thankful For. It is a show of listener requests of especially meaningful bluegrass, and listeners tell us why the songs are meaning...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
In 1938, one of the times greatest duet acts broke up. Bill and Charlie Monroe. It’s not known for certain the reason for the breakup. But although...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:49
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Early in the show, it’s songs of the Midwest. Few songs are written about the Midwest, but it’s definitely part of bluegrass country! The Gem of Bl...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
A good song connects with an audience. A songwriter accomplishes this is by putting a frame around some activity, or by telling us just the what is...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:11
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Caption: Philip Nusbaum at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Sometimes, things don’t quite work aut as intended. That’s the case for the homeless men depicted in our first two songs today. Then, the Gem of Bl...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The blues is a pervasive influence in American music, and it some of its musical ideas affect everybody who plays the blues. But there are some dif...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
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Today’s show opens with a few redone classics, leading to the Gem of Bluegrass which displays different orientations to the blues. Later on the sho...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The fiddle is the bluegrass instrument that is most like the human voice, and you can make it sound like birds or automobiles and trains. And over ...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass is nothing if not realistic, and our first few selections are a case in point. Each is a modern love song, where the romance is wrapped a...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
In bluegrass we know that the size of a place matters: big cities are often bad, and little towns good. but what about places not built up at all? ...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
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Our program begins with some songs reflecting odd notions of the concept “justice.” The its time for the Gem of Bluegrass, which reflects on bluegr...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
To casual listeners, bluegrass is that fast stuff with the banjo and the fiddle riffing madly. Well, that’s certainly part of it! But not all of it...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
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We lead off with a couple of recent “coal” songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuses on a subtle change in bluegrass band approaches over the last ...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass music is an idiom that has evolved over time, but has had several great ideas that changed aspects of the music markedly. Regarding blueg...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our show begins with songs about kids. In bluegrass there are a lot of tragic songs about kids, but this time we mix in a lot of cute and uplifting...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
This week, after a new Blue Highway song, we play a new bluegrass follow up song…it follows up Dolly Parton’s Jolene,” massive country hit from yea...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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Stories. There are a lot of them out there. A story, whether its told, written or sung, has a premise acted on by a plot that leads to a conclusion...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:37
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Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens up with a couple of new Bill Monroe tributes, including a Frank Wakefield interpretation of Monroe’s Bluegrass Stomp. Wakefield is a...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
If you hang around with bluegrass people, you’ve heard the concept, “drive.” It is a musical element strong in bluegrass, maybe even unique to blue...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:08
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
2nd of 2 fund Bluegrass Review fund raising editions

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 40:28
  • Purchases: 1